Shakir Mustafa Salim (1919–1985) was an Iraqi social anthropologist who taught in the Department of Sociology at Baghdad University.[1]

S. M. Salim
Born1919
Died1985
NationalityIraqi
Alma materUniversity College, London
Known forMarsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta (1962)
Scientific career
FieldsSocial anthropology
InstitutionsBaghdad University

He compiled A Dictionary of Anthropology: English-Arabic (1981).

Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta

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Salim is best known for his groundbreaking ethnographic work, Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta, submitted as his doctoral thesis in University College, London (1955), first published in Arabic in Baghdad in two volumes (1956-1957), and subsequently published in English as number 23 in the series London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology (London: Athlone Press, 1962). This was an anthropological report on a year spent among the Marsh Arabs of Al-Chibayish, Iraq, in 1953.

The work was reviewed by:

References

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  1. ^ Eric Davis, Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (University of California Press, 2005), p. 332.